On November 27th 2015, State Intellectual Property Office issued “Decisions Regarding the Awarding of the 17th China Patents Awards”, in which our patent “a process to produce SNG from coke oven gas” won the award of excellence. This is the 2nd time our institute has won China patent award. Previously, SWRDICI’s patent “a method to produce DME from methanol” had also won a China patent award of excellence.
In recent years in the field of industrial vent gas utilization, our institute has continuously carried out R&D work, patents filling and management as well as IP commercialization on technologies such as coke oven gas to natural gas. To better protect our IP rights, over 20 patents on technologies related to key process and catalyst of coke oven gas methanation has been filed, effectively establishing a pool of patents. “A process to produce SNG from coke oven gas” is the core patent of our methanation technology. So far, nearly 20 plants of coke oven gas to natural gas has been licensed with our patented technology and increasing efforts are being devoted to further promote the commercialization of this technology. In summary our technology takes majority share of its domestic market sector and has achieved remarkable results in commercialization. The industrialization of our methanation technology turned the heavily polluting industrial vent gas to clean energy. In addition, it also helped upgrading the excess production capacity of domestic coking industry. Overall, the emerging, strategic, low carbon emission and low energy consumption industry is benefited from this technology.